Bush Hog

[greggyy]

Hi All,

You will have to bear with me, I have to do everything upside down, but I am wondering.......

We have something often called a "slasher"

But I see you all call them...

Bush Hogs

or

Brush Hog

Where does the hog come into it or from ?

I could understand...

Brush mower
Brush slasher
Bush mower
Bush slasher

But I don't get the hog, and I am not sure google would help me, but I want to ask here :thumbsup:

 

[gator]

From Bush Hog website about their history link Over 65 years of proven performance!:
In 1951, a new device designed to clear pasture and crop residue was being demonstrated to a group of farmers near Selma, Alabama. Witnessing the ease at which the tractor-pulled implement devoured heavy brush, an elderly gentleman wearing worn overalls stepped forward and observed, "That thing eats bushes like a hog!" And the name that became synonymous with rotary cutters in North America was born.

 

[stuckmotor]

Bush Hog is the brand name for what may be the most common slasher in the US. It's kind of like the way we call a tissue a kleenex or a bandage a band-aid.

 

[stuckmotor]

Another example is the name of the guy who beat me to the punch with the answer. The JD GATOR is so common that I think of that name for all mini off road trucks.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

They are "rotary cutters", all the other names are slang for rotary cutter.

SR

 

[MESSMAKER]

Ask someone in my area for a rotary cutter and you will get a tool to cut sewing material,

 

[ThirdMan]

Rotary cutter is what all the manufacturers call them. Though as far as I can tell no end user calls them that.

 

[Xfaxman]

My 7' brush hog is called a Rotary Mower by the manufacturer: Grace Manufacturing | Home of the Tree Terminator

 

[Stimw]

Bush Hog owns the name so other manufacturers can't use it but Bush Hog has become a generic term when there are no lawyers involved.

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

G'Day.....
Here in the Great White North we call them Brush Hogs... eh....

Like said. Brush Hog is a manufacturer and the term is used like the name Frigidaire is used for the appliance, refrigerator.

How ever I do agree the better term to use would be "slasher" because of the job they do on grass, weeds, brush.

There are a number of people in this area from OZ. And a few from Canada that have spent time "down under". It is fun comparing terms, like Loo from the Brits, Dunny, and Canadian term washroom.

The ways we are different and the ways we are the same. Interesting....